The Program: The Brain-Smart Approach to the Healthiest You: The Life-Changing 12-Week Method

Why is The Healthiest You different from every other health, diet, and fitness plan? Because it works.Dr. Kelly Traver understands that the human brain resists change. Only when we learn the secrets of how to get our brain to work for us, not against us, can we make healthy, permanent lifestyle changes. By combining recent cutting-edge discoveries in neuroscience with the latest information in medicine, nutrition, and fitness, Dr. Traver developed the Healthiest You program and initially tested it on her patients, ranging in age from twenty to eighty-one. Her results were astounding:• Among those who were overweight, the average weight loss was 19 pounds.• Among those who were diabetic, 80 percent achieved a reduction in their blood sugar.• Among those with high blood pressure, 87 percent returned their blood pressure to normal.• Some 80 percent of the smokers successfully kicked the habit. In the course of 12 short weeks, readers can achieve similar success by following Dr. Traver’s simple, straightforward instructions to work with this stubbornly change-resistant organ so that it not only accepts new, healthy lifestyle habits, it actually embraces them. You can use this empowering information to remotivate yourself whenever your enthusiasm starts to wane. With the powerful tools provided by The Healthiest You, you can learn to change your body and your life, simply by understanding and working with your brain.

THE PROGRAM by Dr. Kelly Traver teaches you how to outsmart your change-resistant brain so that it embraces a healthy lifestyle.

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Traver (global medical director, Google, Worldwide) created "The Program," a 12-week course (used by Google and Stanford University) dedicated to changing the way people think in order to change the way people live. Now, Traver and journalist Sargent have expanded The Program into a self-guided book for public use. For readers who have tried Judith S. Beck's The Beck Diet Solution, The Program may feel similar. As in the Beck Diet Solution, readers are encouraged to be conscious of their behaviors. Once the detrimental behaviors are eliminated and healthy behaviors are learned, they should begin to feel healthy and happy. Unlike the Beck system, The Program is not solely a weight-loss plan; it is a healthy-lifestyle guide. Also, readers should note that Traver is not necessarily promoting cognitive behavioral therapy as Beck does. The Program comes more from a medical view than from a psychological one. VERDICT The Program is an excellent choice for readers interested in lifelong healthy living. Highly recommended.—Rachel M. Minkin, Lansing Community Coll., MI

Kelly Traver, MD received her medical degree from Stanford where she also specialized in Internal Medicine. During an additional year as chief resident she won the Excellence in Teaching award and currently serves as an adjunct clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Dr. Traver has been practicing medicine for more than seventeen years, but her background also includes research in biochemistry, teaching in a Stanford neuroanatomy lab and a brief public health study in South Africa while in medical school. She recently served as medical director at Google and is currently on the board for the Institute for the Future. Dr. Traver is the founder of Healthiest You, a company that works with corporations, health care organizations, and the government to help individuals become more empowered and engaged in their health. She lives with her husband and children in Portola Valley, California.